Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.