The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.