It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Let us try what love will do.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

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

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

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