Let us see what love can do.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

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.