Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

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

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.

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.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

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.