Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

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

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.