If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.