Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

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

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

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.

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

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

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.