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

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.