Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.