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.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?