Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Truth is a naked and open daylight
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.