Prevention is better than cure.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Frugality is a handsome income.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.