It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.