The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

Knowledge Is The Treasure, But Judgment The Treasurer, Of A Wise Man.

Above All Things Endeavor To Breed Them Up The Love Of Virtue, And That Holy Plain Way Of It Which We Have Lived In, That The World In No Part Of It Get Into My Family. I Had Rather They We're Homely Than Finely Bred As To Outward Behavior; Yet I Love Sweetness Mixed With Gravity, And Cheerfulness Tempered With Sobriety.

A True Friend Freely, Advises Justly, Assists Readily, Adventures Boldly, Takes All Patiently, Defends Courageously, And Continues A Friend Unchangeably.

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.

It Were Happy If We Studied Nature More In Natural Things; And Acted According To Nature, Whose Rules Are Few, Plain, And Most Reasonable.