Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.