Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.
It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it
The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And those also would follow with more Judgment, and less Trouble and Time.
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