Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

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

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.