The way to rise is to obey and please.
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.