Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.