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

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.