Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.