Zeal will do more than knowledge.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.