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

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Let us try what love will do.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.