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

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.