If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.