Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.