True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.