Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.