Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

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.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.