Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.