An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Business neglected is business lost.

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.