He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

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

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.