Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

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

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

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.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

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