That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

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

An old young man, will be a young old man.