Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

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