If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.