The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

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.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.