Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.