Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.