There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.