Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Let us see what love can do.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.