Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

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

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.