A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.