Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.