Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

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

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.