Wit And Wisdom Are Born

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.

No Man Is The Wiser For His Learning; It May Administer Matter To Work In, Or Objects To Work Upon; But Wit And Wisdom Are Born With A Man.

Twas An Unhappy Division That Has Been Made Between Faith And Works; Though In My Intellect I May Divide Them, Just As In The Candle I Know There Is Both Light And Heat. But Yet, Put Out The Candle, And They Are Both Gone.

A Wise Man Should Never Resolve Upon Anything, At Least, Never Let The World Know His Resolution, For If He Cannot Reach That He Is Ashamed.

More Solid Things Do Not Show The Complexion Of The Times So Well As Ballads And Libels.