The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

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

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

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