| Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. |
| True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. |
| True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. |
| No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown. |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. |
| If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. |
| 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. |
| Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. |
| Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. |
| Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely. |
