It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

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

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

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

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