O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.