There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

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

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

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