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

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The best recreation is to do good.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.