The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.