Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.