No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

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

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

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

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.