It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.