Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.