He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

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.

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

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

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

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.