A gallant man is above ill words.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.