A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

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

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.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

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.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.