Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

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.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

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

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.