The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.