Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.