Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Habit is second nature.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.