As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.