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

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

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

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.