All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Lost time is never found again.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?