It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

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

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

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.

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

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.