Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.