A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.