It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.