If Better Is Possible, Good Is Not

That Which Hurts, Also Instructs.

Pride Is As Loud A Beggar As Want, And A Great Deal More Saucy. When You Have Bought One Fine Thing, You Must Buy Ten More, That Your Appearance May Be All Of A Piece; But It Is Easier To Suppress The First Desire Than To Satisfy All That Follow It.

Let No Pleasure Tempt Thee, No Profit Allure Thee, No Persuasion Move Thee, To Do Anything Which Thou Knowest To Be Evil; So Shalt Thou Always Live Jollity; For A Good Conscience Is A Continual Christmas.

Some Volumes Against Deism Fell Into My Hands ... They Produced An Effect Precisely The Reverse To What Was Intended By The Writers; For The Arguments Of The Deists, Which Were Cited In Order To Be Refuted, Appeared To Me Much More Forcibly Than The Refutation Itself; In A Word, I Soon Became A Thorough Deist.

If Time Be Of All Things The Most Precious, Wasting Time Must Be, As Poor Richard Says, “the Greatest Prodigality'; Since, As He Elsewhere Tells Us, 'lost Time Is Never Found Again'; And 'what We Call Time Enough Always Proves Little Enough'. Let Us Then Up And Be Doing, And Doing To The Purpose; So By Diligence Shall We Do More With Less Perplexity.