It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

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.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.