Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Let us see what love can do.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.