Perfect love casteth out fear.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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

Next to God, thy parents.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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.