Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.