Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.