Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.