Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Mankind is unamendable.