The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

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

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

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