Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.