Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.