It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.