He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Well done is better than well said.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.