In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man’s use more than his own.
For we put the power in the people.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not bo heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, “Perfect love casteth out fear.”
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.