Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.