Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

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.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

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.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.