It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.