There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

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

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.