If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

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.