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

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

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

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.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

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.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.