Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Practice makes perfect.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.