Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.