To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.