The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.