In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

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

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.