Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.