A great large book is a great evil.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.