Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

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

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.