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.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

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

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!

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.