Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages