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

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.