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| Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. | 1 |
| Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter on your neighbour’s privacy; and remember that there is no difference between entering into his house and looking into it. | 2 |
| Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow. | 3 |
| Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar. | 4 |
| Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. | 5 |
| Every petition to God is a precept to man. | 6 |
| Friendship is the greatest bond in the world. | 7 |
| God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. | 8 |
| Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. | 9 |
| He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. | 10 |
| Ignorance is the mother of devotion. | 11 |
| It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace cannot be had in this world. | 12 |
| Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God. | 13 |
| Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies. | 14 |
| Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. | 15 |
| No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. | 16 |
| No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man’s character. | 17 |
| Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend. | 18 |
| Prayers are but the body of the bird; desires are its angel’s wings. | 19 |
| Religion cannot change, though we do. | 20 |
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| Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. | 21 |
| Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection. | 22 |
| The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. | 23 |
| Unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. | 24 |
| When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your faithful Creator; and when you have done, trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying. | 25 |
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