Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.