Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

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

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.