A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.