[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.