True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.