Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.