Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.