Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

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

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

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

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

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

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.