Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.