He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.