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

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

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.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

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