Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.