Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.