When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

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

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.