Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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.
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
Force works on servile natures, not the free.