A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

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

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

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.