Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.