It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

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.

Whatever begins, also ends.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.