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

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

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.

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

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

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.