Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

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

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court