Love well, whip well.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.