The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.