Boldness is a child of ignorance

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.