The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it