Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.