Friendship is the union of spirits.

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

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. 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.

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

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.