Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.