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.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

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

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.