A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.