Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.