So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.