God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.