We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.