Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.