Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.