Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

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.

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

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.