Necessity Makes An Honest Man A Knave.

Pride, The First Peer And President Of Hell.

It Is Better To Have A Lion At The Head Of An Army Of Sheep, Than A Sheep At The Head Of An Army Of Lions.

I Learned To Look More Upon The Bright Side Of My Condition, And Less Upon The Dark Side, And To Consider What I Enjoyed, Rather Than What I Wanted : And This Gave Me Sometimes Such Secret Comforts, That I Cannot Express Them ; And Which I Take Notice Of Here, To Put Those Discontented People In Mind Of It, Who Cannot Enjoy Comfortably What God Has Given Them, Because They See And Covet Something That He Has Not Given Them. All Our Discontents About What We Want Appeared To Me To Spring From The Want Of Thankfulness For What We Have.

Wit, Like The Belly, If It Be Not Fed, Will Starve The Members, And Distract The Head.

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