Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

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

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.