True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

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

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.