If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.