Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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.