Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.