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

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

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

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.