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.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

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

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.