If Thou Thinkest Twice Before Thou Speakest

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.

It Is Not Only A Troublesome But Slavish To Be Nice [fastidious].

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom. Friendship Loves A Free Air, And Will Not Be Penned Up In Straight And Narrow Enclosures. It Will Speak Freely, And Act So Too; And Take Nothing Ill Where No Ill Is Meant; Nay, Where It Is, 'twill Easily Forgive, And Forget Too, Upon Small Acknowledgments.

Every Stroke Our Fury Strikes Is Sure To Hit Ourselves At Last.