If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

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.

God has made no one absolute.

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

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