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

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

Let us see what love can do.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.