The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.