A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.