» Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
» If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
» The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
» They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
» 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.
» Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
» To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
» It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
» Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
» 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.