If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

The best recreation is to do good.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.