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.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

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