Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Next to God, thy parents.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

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.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.