Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.