Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?