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

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

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.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.