If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Every man is the son of his own works.