Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die