Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be pedestaled in triumph?

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.