When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.