The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Friends are proved by adversity.

All things are full of God.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

There is no place more delightful than home.

Hunger is the best sauce.

It is better to receive than to do injury.

We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.