There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.