Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

What one relishes, nourishes.

God helps them that help themselves.