Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

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

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

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

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.