Calumnies Are Answered Best With Silence.

Nothing Is More Short-lived Than Pride.

There Is No Bounty To Be Showed To Such As Have Real Goodness: Bounty Is A Spice Of Virtue; And What Virtuous Act Can Take Effect On Them That Have No Power Of Equal Habitude To Apprehend It?

The Poet Is The Nearest Borderer Upon The Orator.

I Perceive Affection Makes A Fool Of Any Man Too Much The Father.

That I Might Live Alone Once With My Gold! O, 'tis A Sweet Companion! Kind And True: A Man May Trust It When His Father Cheats Him, Brother, Or Friend, Or Wife. O Wondrous Pelf! That Which Makes All Men False, Is True Itself.