There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.