Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.