Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.