Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well...
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither ...
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
