If A Civil Word Or Two Will

There Is Nothing Of Which We Are Apt To Be So Lavish As Of Time, And About Which We Ought To Be More Solicitous; Since Without It We Can Do Nothing In This World.

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.

The Only Fountain In The Wilderness Of Life, Where Man Drinks Of Water Totally Unmixed With Bitterness, Is That Which Gushes For Him In The Calm And Shady Recess Of Domestic Life.

Excess In Apparel Is Another Costly Folly. The Very Trimming Of The Vain World Would Clothe All The Naked Ones.

The Country Life Is To Be Preferred, For There We See The Works Of God; But In Cities Little Else But The Works Of Men. And The One Makes A Better Subject For Contemplation Than The Other.