Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

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.

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

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

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

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.