Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.