Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.