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.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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.

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

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.