Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
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'EstrangeRiches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
Roger L'Estrange