Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.