"Hunger never saw bad bread...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful”

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“When you are finished changing, you are finished.”

“If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.”

“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”

“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.”

“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.”