The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

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

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

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

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

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.