Haste makes work which caution prevents.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.