Man is an animal that makes bargains, no other animal does this, no dog exchanges bones with another.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for the merriment and diversion, but the conversaton ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

And a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderlythan an ignorant and stupid one.

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.