Jesters do often prove prophets.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.