Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

The best recreation is to do good.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

Let us try what love will do.

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