"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"It is easy for the fool, especially the learned and scientific fool, to prove that there is no God, but, like the mur…"

"He who with his whole heart believes in Jesus as the Son of God is thereby committed to much else besides. He is comm…"

"[S]ome learned writers...have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram...because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the t…"

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

"The Indian weed witherèd quite, Green at morn, cut down at night, Shows thy decay; All flesh is hay: Thus think, then…"

"The reader must not expect in this work merely the private uninteresting history of a single town. He may expect what…"

"Q. If a hog is decided to be in the right, what is the consequence? A. He is almost ruined. Q. If in the wrong what? …"

"The true art of government consists in not governing too much."

"It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice."