There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

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.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.