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.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Next to God, thy parents.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.