Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

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

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

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

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.