Mr Newton, A Fellow Of

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 Provoke No Man's Enmity Needlessly; Since Any Man's Love May Be Useful, And Every Man's Hatred Is Dangerous.

Slander Is A Complication, A Comprisal And Sum Of All Wickedness.

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 Who Is Settled And Stiffened Into Vice.

It Consisteth In One Knows Not What, And Springeth Up One Can Hardly Tell How. Its Ways Are Unaccountable And Inexplicable, Being Answerable To The Numberless Rovings Of Fancy And Windings Of Language.

The Fruits Of The Earth Do Not More Obviously Require Labor And Cultivation To Prepare Them For Our Use And Subsistence, Than Our Faculties Demand Instruction And Regulation In Order To Qualify Us To Become Upright And Valuable Members Of Society, Useful To Others, Or Happy Ourselves.