One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.