A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
He that lives in love lives in God.
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.