Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

It needs courage to be afraid.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.