Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.