Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment