It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.