Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.