Never despise what you don't understand.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

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

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

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

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

Perfect love casteth out fear.