We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
Friendship is the union of spirits.
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.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.