A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.