Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.