Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

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

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue