In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

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

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