Heav'n is not always got by running.

The next way home's the farthest way about.

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.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.