The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

All industry must be excited by hope.

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.