Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

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

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

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.

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!

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