How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.