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

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.