Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

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.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.