The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.