Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.