A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider