There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.