Art is the perfection of nature.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
Be charitable before Wealth makes thee covetous.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
Pursue Virtue virtuously.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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