There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.