That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.