Time is the author of authors.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.