Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.