Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.