The Golden Age Was Never The Present

The Importation Of Foreigners Into A Country That Has As Many Inhabitants As The Present Employments And Provisions For Subsistence Will Bear, Will Be In The End No Increase Of People, Unless The New Comers Have More Industry And Frugality Than The Natives, And Then They Will Provide More Subsistence, And Increase In The Country; But They Will Gradually Eat The Natives Out. Nor Is It Necessary To Bring In Foreigners To Fill Up Any Occasional Vacancy In A Country For Such Vacancy Will Soon Be Filled By Natural Generation.

When You Taste Honey, Remember Gall.

Is There Anything Men Take More Pains About Than To Render Themselves Unhappy?

Doing Your Best Means Never Stop Trying.

Let Thy Discontents Be Thy Secrets; If The World Knows Them 'twill Despise Thee And Increase Them.