Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run..

Honor is the moral conscience of the great..

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off..

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro….

Ambition is the mind's immodesty..

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least..

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity..

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark pass….

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth..

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd….

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence..

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity..

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth..

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath..

Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr….

What one cannot, another can..

Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the….

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed..

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves..

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, h….

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know..