For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Naked Truth needs no shift.

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

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.