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.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.