[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.