Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.