It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
Friendship is the union of spirits...
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Never chide with anger, but instruction.
Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
They that soar too high, often fall hard.
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men’s faults, and so purblind about our own.
Oppression makes a poor country.
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
The best recreation is to do good.
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.