Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.