Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.