Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

The best recreation is to do good.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.