The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.