We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.