Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.