Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.