Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.