Example has far more followers than reason.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.