Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

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.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.