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

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Let us see what love can do.

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.

Next to God, thy parents.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.