Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.