Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.