When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.