If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

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

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.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.