I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.