The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.