Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
From John Locke
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
All wealth is the product of labor.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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