Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

[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.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

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.