Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

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

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

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.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.