I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.