Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.