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.

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

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.