But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.