Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful