"As I came home I was robbed. The thieves took from me about ten or eleven shillings. My remarks upon it were,—1. What reason have I to be thankful to God, who have travelled so much, and yet was never robbed before. 2. What a deal of evil the love of money is the root of, that four men would venture their lives and souls, for about half a crown a piece. 3. See the power of Satan in the children of disobedience. 4. See the vanity of worldly wealth; how soon we may be stripped of it! How loose, therefore, we should sit to it."
— Matthew Henry
Source: Matthew Henry's diary, 8 March 1713, in J. B. Williams, Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Rev. Matthew Henry