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

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

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.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.