Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Hunger never saw bad bread.