The way to rise is to obey and please.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
Our whole life is like a play.
What excellent fools religion makes of men.