John Tillotson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

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

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