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

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.