Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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.

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

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.