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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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.

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.