A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.