I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.