Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

They love indeed who quake to say they love.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.