To be gentle is the test of a lady.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

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

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

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

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