O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
A good poet's made as well as born.