O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.