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

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.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.