Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

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

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.