It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

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

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.