The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

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

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

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

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