Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.