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

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

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.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.