Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.