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.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.