All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.
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.
To delay justice, is injustice.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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.
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.
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.
As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
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