All men would be cowards if they could.
'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.