The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

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

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

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

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.

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