If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary-and that God is listening while you tell it.