It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
Never despise what you don't understand.
You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.