 Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. |
| Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. |
| Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. |
| Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. |
| Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. |
| Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. |
| They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. |
| Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. Topics: Christianity |
| He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. |
| A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. |
| Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. |
| Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. |
| O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. |
| Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. |
| Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. |
| Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. |
| Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. |
| Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. |
| We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. |
| To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. |
