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.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.