Never chide with anger, but instruction.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

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.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.