A Man Of Knowledge Like

If You Wou'd Be Reveng'd Of Your Enemy, Govern Your Self

Be Civil To All; Serviceable To Many; Familiar With Few; Friend To One; Enemy To None.

This Gave Me Occasion To Observe, That When Men Are Employ'd They Are Best Contented. For On The Days They Work'd They Were Good-natur'd And Chearful; And With The Consciousness Of Having Done A Good Days Work They Spent The Evenings Jollily; But On The Idle Days They Were Mutinous And Quarrelsome, Finding Fault With Their Pork, The Bread, And In Continual Ill-humour. (autobiography, 1771)

Knowledge Of The Investment Is Most Profitable

To Whom You Betray Your Secret You Sell Your Liberty.