Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Knowledge is power.
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.