Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.