Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.