His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.

In charity there is no excess.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.