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

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.