'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!