If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

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.

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

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.