We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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.
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.