The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, ….

No is no negative in a woman's mouth..

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear..

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns..

My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all….

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and su….

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge..

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case..

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative..

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured fou….

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it..

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge..

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking..

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency..

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection..

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care..

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious o….

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it..

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey..