Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.