There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.