Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

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.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.