If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.