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.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.