"A man may be pure and strict in his own life, but if he does not in his own house look diligently to the behavior of his wife and children, his whole labor outside is in vain."

"They have no books among them, but such as are written in their own language."

"They have no plays among them, but such as are moral and instructive."

"He that takes the oath, if he may do it with a safe conscience, I will not advise him to refuse it."

"I am not of so little wit, as to set my soul in peril."