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.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

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

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.