To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.