Never despise what you don't understand.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

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

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Unless virtue guides us, our choice must be wrong.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.