Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

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

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

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

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.