You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage That may secure you….

For he that once is good, is ever great..

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always cont….

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it….

How ready is heaven to those that pray!.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping..

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance ..

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of tru….

Silence in woman is like speech in man..

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink..

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news..

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee..

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself..

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns..

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it..

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it..

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing..

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!.

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle..

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way..