Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

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

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.