The best recreation is to do good.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

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

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

Let us try what love will do.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.