To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.