Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.