Be Neither Silly, Nor Cunning, But Wise

On The Whole, Though I Never Arrived At The Perfection I Had Been So Ambitious Of Obtaining, But Fell Far Short Of It, Yet I Was, By The Endeavor, A Better And A Happier Man Than I Otherwise Should Have Been Had I Not Attempted It.

Drive Your Business. Let Not Your Business Drive You.

Wise Men Learn By Others' Harms, Fools Scarcely By Their Own.

Take Counsel In Wine, But Resolve Afterwards In Water.

I Have Thought That Wild Flowers Might Be The Alphabet Of Angels, — Whereby They Write On Hills And Fields Mysterious Truths, Which It Is Not Given Our Fallen Nature To Understand.