Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

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

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

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

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?