A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.