Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.