If 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.

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

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

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

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.