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

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

The public must and will be served.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.