When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.