Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Let us see what love can do.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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.