There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.