1. “Fill each day with light and heart.”
2. “They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”
3. “Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.”
4. “Great is the advantage of patience.”
5. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.”
6. “We anticipate our own happiness and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them”
7. “Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two proportions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.”
8. “When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.”
9. “Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.”
10. “Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great cases of the ruin of mankind.”
11. “To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”
12. “Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.”
13. “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.”
14. “Integrity gains strength by use.”
15. “If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”
16. “Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.”
17. “Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are god for us, because they discover to us our disease and te to our cure.”
18. “The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”
19. “There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.”
20. “The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.”
21. “Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and chosen distraction.”
22. “Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.”
23. “Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue and against vice and wickedness.”
24. “Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.”
25. “The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.”
26. “In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
27. “If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, he might almost seem to made for the use and benefit of men.”
28. “The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.”
29. “There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.”
30. “If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.”
