Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.