Experience is a safe guide.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.