I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.