The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.