Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.