A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.