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

God has made no one absolute.

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

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

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.