There is some difference between an honest man, and an honest Tradesman; and tho' the distinction is very nice, yet I must say it is to be supported.

If no man can be called honest but he who is never overcome … none but he who is sufficiently fortified against all possibility of being tempted by prospects, or driven by distress, to make any trespass upon his integrity—woe be unto me that write, and to most that read!

[Trade] is like a hand-mill, it must always be turned about by the diligent hand of the master, or if you will, like the pump-house at Amsterdam, where they put offenders in for petty matters … if they will work and keep pumping, they sit well, dry and safe, and if they work very hard one hour or two, they may rest, perhaps a quarter of an hour afterwards; but if they over sleep themselves, or grow lazy, the water comes in upon them, and wets them, and they have no dry place to stand in, much less to sit down in … so that it is nothing but pump or drown, and they may chuse which they like best.

A Tradesman has Hazards … and Fears and Anxieties … all the Way he goes.