Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.