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

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

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

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?

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.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.