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

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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

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

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.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.