The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
Friends are thieves of time.
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.