Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.