The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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

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.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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