I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.