Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.