Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

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

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

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

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.