Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
God has made no one absolute.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
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.
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.