At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.