Friends Are The True Sceptres Of Princes.

As To Jesus Of Nazareth, My Opinion Of Whom You Particularly Desire, I Think The System Of Morals And His Religion, As He Left Them To Us, The Best The World Ever Saw Or Is Likely To See; But I Apprehend It Has Received Various Corrupting Changes; And I Have, With Most Of The Present Dissenters In England, Some Doubts As To His Divinity.

If You Would Know The Value Of Money; Go, And Try To Borrow Some! For, He That Goes A Borrowing, Goes A Sorrowing! And Indeed, So Does He That Lends To Such People, When He Goes To Get It In Again!

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources Is To Be Cast Into The Very Lap Of Fortune; For Our Faculties Then Undergo A Development And Display An Energy Of Which They Were Previosly Unsusceptible.

By Heaven We Understand A State Of Happiness Infinite In Degree, And Endless In Duration.

He Who Will Not Be Counseled Cannot Be Helped.