“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”

“Great necessities call out great virtues”

“Morality is a private and costly luxury”

“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt”

“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”

“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”