Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.