True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

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