True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

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.

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

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.