 Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. |
| 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. |
| True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. |
| The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. |
| Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. |
| It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. |
| Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. |
| The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. |
| Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. |
| 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. |
| Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. |
| Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. |
| A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. |
| Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. |
| Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. |
| Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. |
| Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. |
| Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. |
| To be like Christ is to be a Christian. |
| Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. |
