A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

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

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.