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

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.