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

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

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

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