Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.