Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.