A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Pain is an outcry of sin.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.