If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.