It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.