As Covetousness Is The Root Of All

I Have Since Often Observed, How Incongruous And Irrational The Common Temper Of Mankind Is, Especially Of Youth ... That They Are Not Ashamed To Sin, And Yet Are Ashamed To Repent; Not Ashamed Of The Action For Which They Ought Justly To Be Esteemed Fools, But Are Ashamed Of The Returning, Which Only Can Make Them Be Esteemed Wise Men.

In Their Religion They Are So Uneven, That Each Man Goes His Own Byway To Heaven.

She Is Always Married Too Soon, Who Gets A Bad Husband, And She Is Never Married Too Late, Who Gets A Good One.

Fear Of Danger Is Ten Thousand Times More Terrifying Than Danger Itself.

The Dutch Must Be Understood As They Really Are, The Middle Persons In Trade, The Factors And Brokers Of Europe... They Buy To Sell Again, Take In To Send Out Again, And The Greatest Part Of Their Vast Commerce Consists In Being Supply'd From All Parts Of The World, That They May Supply All Th World Again.