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

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.