Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.