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

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.