Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.