An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

An old man in a house is a good sign.