Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency..

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provok….

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator..

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniforml….

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of ch….

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter..

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the des….

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter..

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own..

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible ….

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and ….

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good..

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church..

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt..

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will;….

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness..

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the ….

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy..

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth..

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive ….

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quic….