“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it; There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.”

“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 provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

“There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.”