The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Home is where the heart is.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.