Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.