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

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

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.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.