If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.