A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Your highest female grace is silence.