I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Necessity does everything well.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

There is always safety in valor.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.