It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.