If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

Integrity gains strength by use.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.