Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.