Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

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.

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