Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

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

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.