"I am for doing good to the poor, but... I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public pro…"

"It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife."

"He that speaks much is much mistaken."

"Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible."

"He that best understands the world, best understands his own business."