Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

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.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

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

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.