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.

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.