If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.