To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.