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

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

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

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

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.