Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.