Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.