O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.