[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.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Life is a kind of chess.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.