Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.