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

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Women do most delight in revenge.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.