Friends Are Good,--good, If Well Chosen.

I Am Giving An Account Of What Was, Not Of What Ought Or Ought Not To Be.

In Their Religion They Are So Uneven, That Each Man Goes His Own Byway To Heaven.

It Is Better To Have A Lion At The Head Of An Army Of Sheep, Than A Sheep At The Head Of An Army Of Lions.

The Height Of Human Wisdom Is To Bring Our Tempers Down To Our Circumstances, And To Make A Calm Within, Under The Weight Of The Greatest Storm Without.

Not The Man In The Moon, Not The Groaning-board, Not The Speaking Of Friar Bacon's Brazen- Head, Not The Inspiration Of Mother Shipton, Or The Miracles Of Dr. Faustus, Things As Certain As Death And Taxes, Can Be More Firmly Believed.