Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.