A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.