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

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

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

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

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

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.