Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.