Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
Though our Savior’s passion is over, his compassion is not.
We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.