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

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

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; 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.

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.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.