Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.