In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.