No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

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

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

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.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.