Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.