Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

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

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.