Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.