The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.