Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

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.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.