The way to rise is to obey and please.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.