Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.