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.

That old bald cheater, Time.

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

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.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Blueness doth express trueness.