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

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

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.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

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.