The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.