“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”

“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with one another for his diversion, while sitting at the table after dinner, but I think the practice was not wise; for, in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”

“Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.”