Perfection Is Immutable. But For Things Imperfect

No Man Can Expect To Find A Friend Without Faults; Nor Can He Propose Himself To Be So To Another. Without Reciprocal Mildness And Temperance There Can Be No Continuance Of Friendship. Every Man Will Have Something To Do For His Friend, And Something To Bear With In Him. The Sober Man Only Can Do The First; And For The Latter, Patience Is Requisite. It Is Better For A Man To Depend On Himself, Than To Be Annoyed With Either A Madman Or A Fool.

Riches, Though They May Reward Virtues, Yet They Cannot Cause Them; He Is Much More Noble Who Deserves A Benefit Than He Who Bestows One.

Virtue Dwells At The Head Of A River, To Which We Cannot Get But By Rowing Against The Stream.

It Is A Most Unhappy State To Be At A Distance With God: Man Needs No Greater Infelicity Than To Be Left To Himself.

Works Without Faith Are Like A Fish Without Water, It Wants The Element It Should Live In. A Building Without A Basis Cannot Stand; Faith Is The Foundation, And Every Good Action Is As A Stone Laid.