Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

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

God has made no one absolute.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

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