I had five or six suits on my hands at one time, and it was nine years before I was clear from them.

What he owed me for clocks, and what I had to pay on notes and acceptances and the expenses of law, amounted to more than _Forty Thousand Dollars_.

Nine years of wakeful nights of trouble, grief and mortification, for this profligate young man! There never was a man more honest than I was in my intentions to help him in his troubles, and I am quite sure no man got so badly swindled.
Every clock maker in the state would have been glad to have sold to him as I did.

This young man was well brought up, but bad company ruined him and others with him.

This life seems to be full of trials.