The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.