Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.