For Sudden Joys, Like Griefs, Confound At

The Height Of Human Wisdom Is To Bring Our Tempers Down To Our Circumstances, And To Make A Calm Within, Under The Weight Of The Greatest Storm Without.

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.

He Look'd A Little Disorder'd, When He Said This, But I Did Not Apprehend Any Thing From It At That Time, Believing As It Us'd To Be Said, That They Who Do Those Things Never Talk Of Them; Or That They Who Talk Of Such Things Never Do Them.

As Covetousness Is The Root Of All Evil, So Poverty Is The Worst Of All Snares.

Pride, The First Peer And President Of Hell.