Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.