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

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

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!

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

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