Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

Never despise what you don't understand.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.