A gallant man is above ill words.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.