As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

No man ever became wise by chance.