The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.