If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
His head was turned by too great success.
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.