There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
How near to good is what is fair!
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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.
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?