What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
Roger L'EstrangeMen are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
Roger L'EstrangeIf we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
Roger L'EstrangeIt is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange