The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.