Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity