Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.