Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly