Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

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.