When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.