Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Compassion

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Experts

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Guests

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

Knowledge

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Nature

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Purpose

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Rest

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Solitude

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Trust

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?