Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

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.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

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.