Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.