It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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.

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.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.