If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled. ]
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it. ]
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing. . . a grateful heart!
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.