“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If men be good, government cannot be bad.”

“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”

“(advice to his children) 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.”