The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

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.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.