Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

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

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.