The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

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

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.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.