Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

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.

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

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

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

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

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.