All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

But what is past my help is past my care.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.