Our Whole Life Is But

People Are Best Convinced By Things They Themselves Discover.

A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.

Laziness Travels So Slowly That Poverty Soon Overtakes It.

Evils Come Not, Then Our Fears Are Vain; And If They Do Fear But Augments The Pain.

We Are More Thoroughly An Enlightened People, With Respect To Our Political Interests, Than Perhaps Any Other Under Heaven. Every Man Among Us Reads, And Is So Easy In His Circumstances As To Have Leisure For Conversations Of Improvement And For Acquiring Information.