The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.