The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

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