A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

Never despise what you don't understand.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.