To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

Great is the advantage of patience.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.