Where love fails we espy all faults.

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.