Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

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

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.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

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

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.