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

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

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.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.