Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.