Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Fortune, that favors fools.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.