We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.