There Is No Gains Without Pain.

If Passion Drives You, Let Reason Hold The Reins.

This Gave Me Occasion To Observe, That When Men Are Employ'd They Are Best Contented. For On The Days They Work'd They Were Good-natur'd And Chearful; And With The Consciousness Of Having Done A Good Days Work They Spent The Evenings Jollily; But On The Idle Days They Were Mutinous And Quarrelsome, Finding Fault With Their Pork, The Bread, And In Continual Ill-humour. (autobiography, 1771)

A Child Thinks 20 Shillings And 20 Years Can Never Be Spent.

How Many Observe Christ's Birthday! How Few, His Precepts!

The Poor Have Little; Beggars, None; The Rich, Too Much; Enough, Not One.