The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'