In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

If better is possible, good is not enough

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.