The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

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

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

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.