Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.