Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.

The future is purchased by the present.