Death cannot kill that which does not die.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.