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.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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

By indignities men come to dignities.