Singularity may be good Sense at home, but it must not go much abroad.
It is a Commendation to be that which a crowd of mistaken Fools call Singular.
There can hardly be a severer thing said to a Man in this Age, than that he is like the rest of the World.
Slander.
Slander would not stick, if it had not always something to lay hold of.
A Man who can allow himself the Liberty to slander, hath the World too much at his Mercy.
But the Man that despiseth Slander deserveth it.
Speakers in Publick.
Speakers in Publick should take more Pains to hold in their Invention than to raise it.
Invention is apt to make such Sallies, that it cannot secure its Retreat.