Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.