Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.