It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

That old bald cheater, Time.