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

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.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

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

Our whole life is like a play.

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.