Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.