Truth needs not flowers of speech.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
And empty heads console with empty sound.
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see