Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Most women have no characters at all.

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Die and endow a college or a cat.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.