Those things that hurt, instruct.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Observe all men, thyself most.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.