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.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

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

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Never despise what you don't understand.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.