In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

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

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.