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

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

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.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

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.

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