Experience is a safe guide.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

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

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.