The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.