The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Character is inured habit.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.