Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.