Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Fill each day with light and heart.

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.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.