Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.