He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.