Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Next to God, thy parents.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.