Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.