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

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

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

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.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.