Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.