Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

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.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

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