Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Peace is never more than one thought away.