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.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.