It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

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.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

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

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.