Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.