It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

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

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

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

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.