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.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day’s business.
Let us see what love can do.
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
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.