No noble thing can be done without risks.
A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.