He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.