He That Takes A Wife, Takes Care

There Seem To Be But Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth. The First Is By War, As The Romans Did, In Plundering Their Conquered Neighbors. This Is Robbery. The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating. The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way, Wherein Man Receives A Real Increase Of The Seed Thrown Into The Ground, In A Kind Of Continual Miracle, Wrought By The Hand Of God In His Favor, As A Reward For His Innocent Life And His Virtuous Industry.

Life With Fools Consists In Drinking; With The Wise Man, Living's Thinking.

It Seems To Me, That If Statesmen Had A Little More Arithmetic, Or Were Accustomed To Calculation, Wars Would Be Much Less Frequent.

The Poor Man Must Walk To Get Meat For His Stomach, The Rich Man To Get A Stomach To His Meat.

Bad Gains Are True Losses.