This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.