The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.