Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.