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.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

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

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.