If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.