The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will b….

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do..

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight f….

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things..

What good shall I do this day?.

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to ….

What is best for people is what they do for themselves..

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock..

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot..

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard ….

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles..

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him ….

Hope of gain lessens pain..

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days..

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor..

Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper….

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep on….

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the for….

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable..

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either..

Eat to live, not live to eat..