Great is the advantage of patience.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

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