Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.