Integrity gains strength by use.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

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

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.