Hope Of Gain Lessens Pain.

My Dear Friend, Do Not Imagine That I Am Vain Enough To Ascribe Our Success [revolution] To Any Superiority . . . If It Had Not Been For The Justice Of Our Cause, And The Consequent Interposition Of Providence, In Which We Had Faith, We Must Have Been Ruined. If I Had Ever Before Been An Atheist, I Should Now Have Been Convinced Of The Being And Government Of A Deity!

In Short, I Conceive That Great Part Of The Miseries Of Mankind Are Brought Upon Them By The False Estimates They Have Made Of The Value Of Things, And By Their Giving Too Much For Their Whistles.

He That Steals The Old Man's Supper Does Him No Wrong.

There Are Three Things Extremely Hard: Steel, A Diamond, And To Know One's Self.

We Are Not So Sensible Of The Greatest Health As Of The Least Sickness.