Commend A Fool For His Wit, Or

The Man Who Is Wantonly Profuse Of His Promises Ought To Sink His Credit As Much As A Tradesman Would By Uttering A Great Number Of Promissory Notes Payable At A Distant Day. The Truest Conclusion In Both Cases Is, That Neither Intend Or Will Be Able To Pay. And As The Latter Most Probably Intends To Cheat You Of Your Money, So The Former At Least Designs To Cheat You Of Your Thanks.

It Is Not From Nature, But From Education And Habits, That Our Wants Are Chiefly Derived.

It Hath Been Often Said, That It Is Not Death, But Dying, Which Is Terrible.

A Broken Heart Is A Distemper Which Kills Many More Than Is Generally Imagined, And Would Have A Fair Title To A Place In The Bills Of Mortality, Did It Not Differ In One Instance From All Other Diseases, Namely, That No Physicians Can Cure It.

It Is Much Easier To Make Good Men Wise, Than To Make Bad Men Good.