It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.