Necessity Makes An Honest Man A Knave.

The Best Of Men Cannot Suspend Their Fate; The Good Die Early, And The Bad Die Late.

So Possible Is It For Us To Roll Ourselves Up In Wickedness, Till We Grow Invulnerable By Conscience; And That Sentinel, Once Dozed, Sleeps Fast, Not To Be Awakened While The Tide Of Pleasure Continues To Flow Or Till Something Dark And Dreadful Brings Us To Ourselves Again.

Great Families Of Yesterday We Show, And Lords, Whose Parents Were The Lord Knows Who.

In Trouble To Be Troubled, Is To Have Your Trouble Doubled! [people Who Get Upset And Worried At The First Sign Of Misfortune Are Only Making Their Situation Worse And Thereby Doubling Their Troubles. Stay Calm And Happy. Cool And Joyful Heads Are More Likely To Survive And Prevail.]

These Reflections Made Me Very Sensible Of The Goodness Of Providence To Me, And Very Thankful For My Present Condition, With All Its Hardships And Misfortunes ; And This Part Also I Cannot But Recommend To The Reflection Of Those Who Are Apt, In Their Misery, To Say, Is Any Affliction Like Mine? Let Them Consider How Much Worse The Cases Of Some People Are, And Their Case Might Have Been, If Providence Had Thought Fit.