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

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.