Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.