Abundance Consists Not Alone In Material Possession,

Prayer Should Be Short, Without Giving God Almighty Reasons Why He Should Grant This, Or That; He Knows Best What Is Good For Us.

I Have Taken Much Pains To Know Everything That Is Esteemed Worth Knowing Amongst Men; But With All My Reading, Nothing Now Remains To Comfort Me At The Close Of This Life But This Passage Of St. Paul: "it Is A Faithful Saying, And Worthy Of All Acceptation, That Jesus Christ Came Into The World To Save Sinners." To This I Cleave, And Herein Do I Find Rest.

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.

'tis Not The Eating, Nor 'tis Not The Drinking That Is To Be Blamed, But The Excess.

When Men Comfort Themselves With Philosophy, 'tis Not Because They Have Got Two Or Three Sentences, But Because They Have Digested Those Sentences, And Made Them Their Own: Philosophy Is Nothing But Discretion.