He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

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

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.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.