The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.