Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.