Pain Wastes The Body, Pleasures The Understanding.

My Dear Friend, Do Not Imagine That I Am Vain Enough To Ascribe Our Success [revolution] To Any Superiority . . . If It Had Not Been For The Justice Of Our Cause, And The Consequent Interposition Of Providence, In Which We Had Faith, We Must Have Been Ruined. If I Had Ever Before Been An Atheist, I Should Now Have Been Convinced Of The Being And Government Of A Deity!

Idleness Is The Dead Sea That Swallows All Virtues. Be Active In Business, That Temptation May Miss Her Aim; The Bird That Sits Is Easily Shot.

No Better Relation Than A Prudent And Faithful Friend.

Experience Keeps A Dear School, But Fools Will Learn In No Other.

If Any Man Flatters Me, I'll Flatter Him Again; Tho' He Were My Best Friend.