[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.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.