By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.