Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.