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.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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