Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

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

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.