Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.